OMG, Eubank is absolutely nuts

Crew2 · Post by **Crew2** » 30 Jun 2007, 10:13

112 suits, 41 pairs of JODHPURS, 23 pairs of riding boots, 16 coats, 17 different canes (12 of which gold-tipped) , 31 Monocles, 1-5-0 150 pairs of shoes, 42 different 'headwear', 25 Louis Vitton bags, 13 pairs of sunglasses/glasses and 120-130 other items of clothing (including 37 pairs of silk socks and 40 pairs of Versace underpants). The baliffs weren't allowed to take this

Its also been revealed that Eubank has hundreds of personal photos of himself right from when he was a baby, including photos of himself in his late pre-teens, teens and early 20s actually with a camera around his neck in the photos (?), and chooses precisely 20 to place in a Louis Vitton bag every time he goes out and has been doing this for 10 - 15 years. Nobody knows why

Its also been said that Chris is prepared to go to prison with his peace pledges, and get this-he recently told a friend that he's planning on living permanentely in his truck!

silkov · Post by **silkov** » 30 Jun 2007, 11:11

I admire him for his peace demonstrations, as for the photos, they are probably chosen to give out to fans who ask for his autograph, ....nothing too strange in that!... 8)

Crew2 · Post by **Crew2** » 30 Jun 2007, 11:15

No these are personal photos he just keeps! There are photocards as well he gives out to fans

Nut

Neri · Post by **Neri** » 30 Jun 2007, 11:54

silkov wrote:I admire him for his peace demonstrations, as for the photos, they are probably chosen to give out to fans who ask for his autograph, ....nothing too strange in that!... 8)

Indeed they are.

My nan was on a coach trip in Brighton a few years ago, and Eubank got the coach to pull over, he jumped aboard and passed out signed photos of himself to everyone. She gave the photo to me and when she first told me about it said it was Mike Tyson.

Slapsie Maxie · Post by **Slapsie Maxie** » 30 Jun 2007, 12:01

bless grandparents eh?

When I was a kid and had a bit of a thing for Chelsea, my gran gave me a glass drink for soft drinks which was emblazoned with the Birmingham City logo. She could never figure out why I was so upset

As for Eubank. on two occasions in the same week, I walked past him and he, unsolicited, gave me a photograph.

When, the second time, I said " you already gave me one on Tuesday" he replied " this is a different one, it'll be worth more"

Got to love him

Slapsie

Coco · Post by **Coco** » 30 Jun 2007, 12:38

The man is a legend

Loynesy · Post by **Loynesy** » 30 Jun 2007, 12:41

He is a nut.

I have seen him in Claridges loads of times, he stands by the window in the bar, yearning for people to recognise him.

Scrap · Post by **Scrap** » 30 Jun 2007, 13:07

Hes Generous, good company, cares, and would hurt no one. A bit loopy but in his life He wore the Teeshirt whats the problem.

Slapsie Maxie · Post by **Slapsie Maxie** » 30 Jun 2007, 13:14

no problem at all as far as I am concerned

life would be a lot more boring without people like Eubank

As bit wilfully eccentric sometimes, but there is a genuine level of lovable lunacy within that you have to admire

Slapsie

josh fg · Post by **josh fg** » 30 Jun 2007, 13:40

I admire the fact that he has willingly risked prison for his erm protests, he was also a great fighter who took on the majority of the people in this country who didn't like him.

stujones · Post by **stujones** » 30 Jun 2007, 14:23

I agree with Slapsie, so what if his "only" flaw is that he is hungry to re-capture his fame and enjoys being the centre of attention. Plenty of people are, does that make them a nut? Nope.

MightyWarrior · Post by **MightyWarrior** » 30 Jun 2007, 14:29

Gotta love Chris Eubank

Chambers2 · Post by **Chambers2** » 30 Jun 2007, 15:40

I've liked him since the first time I clapped eye on him, he's a living legend.

Peace

silkov · Post by **silkov** » 30 Jun 2007, 17:06

I think theres plenty of other things Chris could do if he was just interested in the fame... and its not as if he's appearing on chat shows about this or making money out of it... I think he;s doing these things out of genuine belief and should be appluded for having the balls to carry out these protests... and risk his freedom for them...

yiddo14 · Post by **yiddo14** » 01 Jul 2007, 02:53

Greatest living Englishman

Hardhitters11 · Post by **Hardhitters11** » 01 Jul 2007, 06:54

Chris is a top fella, I have met him and he is a very interesting bloke...

HH

stepper · Post by **stepper** » 01 Jul 2007, 17:50

I loved Chris Eubanks style from the first words I heard him speak. He was being interviewed after an early victory and was being encouraged to big himself up.
"Actually" he said "This is a brutal sport and I am in considerable pain at the moment"
The interviewer was lost for words. In all the times he's been on TV I've never seen him try and make out he is anything more than a human being and yet he dresses like the king of Sussex.
His autobigraphy is a painful read and he is brutally honest about his childhood where he grew up in a home where cleanliness was not high on the agenda and he suffered taunts about being smelly.
He is a bizarre, wild, honest, strange British eccentric and he is a national treasure.

Nightmare Roy · Post by **Nightmare Roy** » 01 Jul 2007, 23:01

Loynesy wrote:He is a nut.

I have seen him in Claridges loads of times, he stands by the window in the bar, yearning for people to recognise him.

I worked in that area a long time ago, he always seemed to be around, blocking the streets of with his truck

and giving out signed photos to people wether they wanted them or not, maybe he's a bit odd, but he's harmless and he was one hell of a brave fighter and a great entertainer.

bestards · Post by **bestards** » 02 Jul 2007, 06:06

NATHANAEL Wilson has never had a dad. And now that the hidden love child of former world boxing champion Chris Eubank is fast approaching 16, he wants to know why.

Nathanael, known to his friends as Nat, is Eubank's fifth child - a secret-son who the fighter turned celebrity has tried to conceal from the public.

After years of being ignored and spurned, Nat has decided to speak publicly about his heartache for the first time, in the hope of finally attracting the attention of his natural father.

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"The rejection is the hardest part of it all," says Nat, quietly.

"My father has acted like a two-faced hypocrite, but if he came to me and said sorry I'd give him the chance to explain. I just want to know why he has turned his back on me. I feel I've got a right to know."

Multi-millionaire Eubank has never acknowledged his oldest son - the result of a six-month romance with Nat's mum Cynthia in the late 80s.

As if that didn't hurt enough, four years ago when Nat tried to call his dad, the former boxer delivered a knockout blow telling him never to get in touch again.

"I tried ringing him when I was 12," explains Nat, who is the spitting image of his famous dad. "But his butler came on and said, 'Chris doesn't want you to ring back'.

"I was really hurt. I tore up his number. I took all his pictures out of my photo album. The man's got no morals. He tries to act like a saint, but he's like a little snake - even with that lisp he's like, 'sssssss'.

"I was watching him on TV in At Home With The Eubanks and he said, 'I would never do anything to hurt anyone'.

"I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I just changed channels - I couldn't listen to him any more.

"He makes out he's a family man, but he turned his back on me. He left me and my mum to struggle while he drives around in his big cars and lives in a big house."

Today, the only link Nat has with the man he once idolised is an autographed photo given to him during a chance meeting nine years ago.

"I knew he was my dad and I used to watch him on TV when I was a kid," says Nat. "Mum has always been straight with me about what happened,

"When I was about six, my mum's friend took me to some event and my dad was there doing a publicity thing. He knew who I was straight away.

"He said, 'Is this Cynthia's son?' And I think he started crying.

Then he gave me a picture of himself and signed it, 'From the Champ'. I remember thinking, 'That's my dad'.

"I didn't know what to feel. I was so upset. It was the only time I've ever met him, or even spoken to him."

Eubank met Cynthia in a seafood restaurant in South London in June 1987, where she was working as a waitress.

"He wasn't really a big name then," says Cynthia, 42, who has built up a successful children's nursery business in Croydon, where she and Nat now live. "He asked me out and we went on a few dates - it was fun.

"Chris had already arranged to go to the States shortly after we met and at the same time I decided to travel to Jamaica to see relatives.

"I went to stay with my dad in New York and Chris was living in The Bronx, so we hooked up and dated for six months."

One night, when they were taking a taxi home from an exclusive Manhattan party, the couple had a huge row.

Soon after the bust-up Cynthia realised she was pregnant. But when she told Eubank, he dumped her. She says: "If there was anything between us it ended that night after the party. So to find out I was pregnant was a shock.

"I told Chris as soon as I knew. Initially he was shocked, but then he just wasn't interested.

"He never said anything positive about me having a baby, or him having a son - it was something his career didn't allow at the time.

Cynthia returned to England where she gave birth to Nat. They lived in a flat in Brixton, South London, but it was tough making ends meet.

The difference between their modest lifestyle and Eubank's lavish one couldn't have been more marked

W HILE he drove around in a flashy £200,000 Aston Martin sports car, Cynthia had to take their son to school in a battered old Ford Fiesta.

"I accepted that Chris didn't want anything to do with us," says Cynthia.

"It was painful - you just don't think a person can have a heart like that. But all I knew was that I had two jobs and was struggling to support my son while Chris was rolling in money.

"Nat was coming up to 18 months old when I first saw Chris boxing on TV. So I looked in the paper and found details of his coaching team."

But her attempts to get in touch with her old boyfriend fell on deaf ears.

She recalls, "His manager told me Chris had said he didn't even know me. My hurt became anger. I thought he not only denies he has a child, but he's denying even knowing me."

He only gave in when Cynthia contacted lawyers and came up with the DNA proof.

Eubank, who is thought to have amassed a fortune of more than £10million during his career, forked out a lump sum of around £30,000 to end the maintenance action. Effectively, he washed his hands of Nat.

Chris now lives with his wife Karron and their four children in a £2.5million mock-Tudor home in Brighton, East Sussex.

Two years ago he appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and in Louis Theroux's series.

And last year, his family appeared on their own Channel 5 reality TV show, At Home With The Eubanks. It all reinforced his status as one of our best-loved celebrities. But not everyone is won over by Chris's eccentric charm.

"He's an idiot. He's a circus clown," says Nat, mimicking the famous lisp, "Cwisss Euubank," before bursting into laughter.

"I admit, he was quite funny on TV and I saw a little bit of me in him - that was amazing!

"But he treats his kids a bit bad. He cut off one kid's hair for being naughty, I thought that was wrong. And he's into old traditions and tough on discipline. He thinks the woman should be in the kitchen.

"He spends thousands on his own clothes, but his kids look a bit scruffy. For someone of his tastes, he should dress his children better. I think he's just selfish. He's been selfish with me and my mum."

Nat sighs, then adds wistfully, "I do sometimes think things could have been different."

He might never have known his dad, but Nat, who has a four-year-old half-brother called Jared, shares many of his father's mannerisms.

He even took up boxing, but after a few training sessions decided it wasn't for him.

NAT now attends a drama school in London, but his main passion lies in hip hop and garage music - he dreams of becoming an MC.

"A few months ago, my dad was at the train station outside my school," recalls Nat.

"One of the boys ran up to him and said, 'Have you got a son called Nathanael?' He said, 'I've never heard of him in my life'. It hurts that even my friends know my own dad doesn't want anything to do with me.

"He knows who I am, he knows what school I go to, but he has never been in touch. I wrote to him when I was 11 and sent him a school photo and asked him whether he ever comes to Croydon.

"I want to know why he has never been in touch. I do think I've missed out. I don't really have a role model, apart from my uncles."

Cynthia has her own theory about why Eubank has turned his back so forcibly on Nat.

"Chris married a white girl, so he could live the life of an English gentleman," she says.

"I've come to the conclusion that Chris doesn't like who he is and because of this he doesn't want a replica of himself.

"He doesn't want a black child - a black child would represent him.

"Animals treat their young better than he's treated his son."

A friend of the boxer said last night: "Chris has never made any secret of the fact that Nathanael is his child. He believes he has made proper provision for the upbringing of his son.

"His relationship with Cynthia was well before he married his wife Karron. And she is fully aware of all of this.

"He believes that in the circumstances he has acted responsibly and as honourably as possible."